National Affairs: THE NEGRO CRIME RATE: A FAILURE IN INTEGRATION

THEY are afraid to say so in public, but many of the North's big-city
mayors groan in private that their biggest and most worrisome problem
is the crime rate among Negroes.

In 1,551 U.S. cities, according to the FBI tally for 1956, Negroes,
making up 10% of the U.S. population, accounted for about 30% of all
arrests, and 60% of the arrests for crimes involving violence or threat
of bodily harmmurder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and
aggravated assault. In one city after another, the figureswhere they
are not hidden or suppressed by politiciansreveal a shocking pattern.
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